The married adventures of a Disneyphile girl-next-door who struggles with her weight.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Weigh-In Wednesday #6: the failure

Ugh!So my Weigh-in Wednesdays have not been going as well as I'd hoped.I have been walking and for the most part I'm eating well but things like summer carnivals have thrown me off; celebrations for birthdays and anniversaries; vacation.I like food.I’d call myself a Foodie.I just need to be making better choices.

The biggest problem, I think, that is keeping me from successfully losing the weight I need to lose, is eating out.Fairly often I’ll decide I’m not making dinner after a day at work where there’s issues or when there’s a lot of traffic on the commute home.Many nights I’ll have hungry faces staring at me because I forgot to thaw something to make for dinner and then it’s pizza or Chinese or going out to one of the hundreds of chain restaurants in our area.A small, local place has an all-you-can-eat wing buffet on Monday nights where they serve a dozen differently sauced chicken wings and sometimes Prince Charming and I will give in to the temptation.Oooh!And on Thursday nights they have shrimp night and it’s the best, large, clean peel-and-eat shrimp you ever had…

(Do you see what happened there?I start getting all excited and boom! Three more pounds! ARRRGHHH!)

My office has a Weight Watchers meeting every Wednesday (convenient for my blogging, right???) and it runs on a 12-week cycle.The new cycle starts in October, I think, and I’m going to suck it up and register.I need the help and the support and the accountability to do this.Apparently I can’t do it on my own and Weight Watchers has worked for me in the past.